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Political Science Comparative Politics

Irregular Governance

A Plea for Bold Organizational Experimentation

by (author) Ruth Hubbard & Gilles Paquet

Publisher
Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2021
Category
Comparative Politics, Public Affairs & Administration, History & Theory
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781927465226
    Publish Date
    Nov 2021
    List Price
    $15.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780776638430
    Publish Date
    Nov 2021
    List Price
    $16.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780776638454
    Publish Date
    Nov 2021
    List Price
    $26.97

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A Plea for Bold Organizational Experimentation. The eighth book in the Collaborative Metagovernance series is an irreverent challenge to administrative conservatorship, and a case for bold organizational experimentation. It makes the case for effective new actors, new structural forms and new social technologies, while showing the perils of ill-conceived contraptions like super-bureaucracies, single-purpose agencies and failure to pay due attention to good management.
This series of books is designed to define cumulatively the contours of collaborative decentered metagovernance. At this time, there is still no canonical version of this paradigm: it is en émergence. This series intends to be one of many construction sites to experiment with various dimensions of an effective and practical version of this new approach.
Metagovernance is the art of combining different forms or styles of governance, experimented with in the private, public and social sectors, to ensure effective coordination when power, resources and information are widely distributed, and the governing is of necessity decentred and collaborative.

About the authors

Ruth Hubbard is a senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa, and a senior partner of INVENIRE. She is the author of Profession: Public servant (INVENIRE Press, 2009) and co-author of Gomery's Blinders and Canadian Federalism (University of Ottawa Press, 2007).

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Gilles Paquet is professor emeritus at the Telfer School of Management and senior research fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. He has authored or edited over 35 books and published a large number of papers on economics, public management and governance.

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